Re: falsifying the lost opportunity updating mechanism for free will

Posted by gepr on Jun 19, 2020; 1:22am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/falsifying-the-lost-opportunity-updating-mechanism-for-free-will-tp7597285p7597301.html

Hm. You have a strange way of phrasing it. What I'm doing is defining a mechanism that *might* generate the phenomenon of interest. It's typical simulation. If it *cannot* generate the phenomenon, then that falsifies this mechanism, which is what we want, falsifiable hypotheses.

On 6/18/20 5:25 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
> So you are defining a mechanism that by definition is mechanistic (perhaps with some randomness sprinkled over it) and then saying that it may look to some people like it seems to have free will? If that's what you're doing, what are you claiming that demonstrates? If that's not what you're doing, I'm afraid I still don't understand.

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